Police & Courts

A trial in East Hampton Town Justice Court on July 12 resulted in a not-guilty verdict for Nicholas Sebastian Spoerl, a carpenter who lives in Sag Harbor. Mr. Spoerl had been accused of reckless driving and endangerment.

What police later called a road-rage confrontation ended on Route 114 in East Hampton on the morning of April 16, 2014, when Mr. Spoerl’s 2002 Subaru Forester collided head-on with a 2008 Chevrolet utility truck owned by Blue Tides Irrigation of Southampton and driven by Steven S. Setek of Wading River. Thomas J.

Amagansett

A red, white, and blue Trek mountain bike was stolen from the entrance to Indian Wells Beach around 7 a.m. on July 16. Mark Crandall told police he had left the bike along with his flip-flops in the sand while he went for a short walk. When he returned, the flip-flops remained, but the bicycle, valued at $250, was gone.

East Hampton

A driver for Home Town taxi told police that he had been dispatched to a Goodfriend Drive address June 23 to pick up eight passengers headed to the Stephen Talkhouse.

Joseph R. Dowling, 24, was found with heroin and needles when East Hampton Town police detectives arrested him Friday afternoon.

What's on the logs.

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota announced a major arrest sweep of East End drug dealers on Tuesday. The result, he said, is the destruction of two big operations, one dealing in cocaine; the other, heroin.

An Orange County man, Michael J. Lounsbury, 34, was jailed over the weekend in lieu of $10,000 bail following his arrest in downtown Montauk a little after midnight last Thursday.

Christian R. Fusco of Ronkonkoma, 25, put his head and shoulder through a window after yelling at people inside.

East Hampton Town and Village and Sag Harbor police chiefs, noting there are few Spanish-speaking and few African-American officers on the South Fork, said in interviews this week that they were concerned about diversity in their departments.

Montauk Highway in Southampton, between the Stony Brook Southampton campus and Peconic Avenue is closed due to a car accident.

Phone and online scams are on the rise, and many of the con artists behind them are targeting older people.

Sag Harbor police received a call on the afternoon of July 5 reporting a man sleeping under a bush in the Long Wharf area.

What's on the logs this week.

Several defendants have been brought into court on drug-related arrests.

The holiday weekend produced many arrests, some on unusual charges.

The detective declined to say whether arson had been positively identified as the cause until town police receive a complete report from the county squad, which collected evidence in the hours after the fire.

Amagansett

A Westwood, Mass., man took a hard punch to the face from a stranger at the Stephen Talkhouse early Sunday morning, opening up a wound over his left eye. Alexander Owen told police he did not want to press charges against his assailant, who fled, but did want the incident documented. He declined the offer of an ambulance, saying he would take a taxi to Southampton Hospital if he felt he needed medical care.

A Range Rover parked at the Shore Drive West beach access in Lazy Point had a rear brake-light cover ripped off on the afternoon of June 27.

Amagansett

Richard Webb of the East Hampton Town Parks Department reported on June 3 that the urinal and sink in the men’s room and the sink in the women’s room in the comfort station at Albert’s Landing Beach had been vandalized. Repairs will cost at least $1,000.

East Hampton Town

Two Springs women, neighbors and mothers respectively of a young teenaged boy and girl, came to blows late Friday night. Called to quell the ruckus, police said Teresa Aguire of Atwell Street and Liliana Chacon of Crystal Drive had minor injuries.

According to East Hampton Town police, a Springs man, Richard M. Kostura, 65, was texting behind the wheel when he rear-ended another vehicle near midnight Saturday, leading to a three-car crash.

He arrived in Montauk two months ago, Carlos Bonet, 21, told East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky Sunday morning during his arraignment on misdemeanor charges of petty larceny, possession of stolen property, and possession of a small amount of cocaine.

Car crashes followed by charges of driving while intoxicated once again ruled local roads last week.

Amagansett

A man who parked in the Amagansett Square lot near Hampton Chutney the evening of June 9 returned to his 1998 Honda to find the cover for his spare tire, attached to the rear of the car, gone, and the B.F. Goodrich tire itself slashed. Stephen Murray estimated the loss at $250.

An Oak Lane homeowner reported on June 9 that sometime during the winter months, two sculptures had been stolen from a shed on the property.

Jaime Uzhcha, a Springs man who owns Jimmy’s Taxi Service, had his license suspended by the town’s licensing review board last week and is facing its possible revocation as well as a felony charge of possession of a forged instrument.

If the past week was any indication, drivers will need to be especially watchful on local roads this summer. The week saw 11 arraignments in East Hampton Town Justice Court involving defendants charged with driving while intoxicated.

Ronald A. King Jr. of Springs was arraigned Friday at the Cromarty Criminal Court complex in Riverside on felony drunken-driving charges, in connection with his arrest on May 28.

What's on the police logs this week:

On Amagansett Main Street at a little after midnight Friday, East Hampton Town police spotted a 1991 Dodge pickup truck with a burnt-out taillight hanging by wires, and wound up charging its driver, Zachary Persico of Springs, 27, with felony drunken driving.

East Hampton Town police charged two men with felony criminal contempt in recent days for violating orders of protection.

What's on the police logs this week:

East Hampton

A pair of Nike sneakers was reported stolen last month from outside a Boatheader’s Lane house after they had been delivered. Karla Briones said this was not the first time an item she ordered by mail had disappeared.

Montauk

Angela Lux called police at about midnight on Saturday to report that an American flag outside her South Etna Avenue house had been vandalized.

Chief Gerard Larsen of the East Hampton Village police introduced the newest member of the department to the village board on Friday.